After our Feb. 16th class discussion on physician behavior in health care markets, the outside reading assignment for this week (attached here) will involve exploring how we "produce" doctors and whether this process is in need of improvement. All of the following questions below should be answered and submitted via Sakai by not later than Tuesday March 1st at 5 pm Eastern time. Again, please note that I cannot accept files which are in .pages format, only those that are compatible with MS Word
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Engaging the Health Care Workforce The restructuring of the health care industry and ongoing efforts to improve quality are changing how the work of health care is organized. Many health care workers are taking on new roles and responsibilities. Some are excited by these changes and the new opportunities they create. Others are unsure about whether their training has adequately prepared them for the dramatic changes that are taking place. While understanding the need for change, many of these workers
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Supply and Demand Debra Nelson HCS 552 02/06/2012 John Pew Supply and Demand Over the past forty years, health care spending grew at a rate faster than the economy. The outcome of this increased spending meant that portion of the government budget spent on health increased threefold. The escalated spending was not devoted to one area, but permeated the share of national income devoted to health care. This ongoing spending growth pervaded every fragment of the health system, including
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area of health disparity, and find a bill/policy affecting that disparity. •State and explain your position on this bill/policy. •Identify all stakeholders. •Determine the impact of this bill/policy on each stakeholder including access, quality, and/or cost. •Create a plan of action to affect the health care disparity. Describe specific actions you propose to take in this plan of action. •How you will evaluate the effectiveness of this plan of action? An ideal health delivery
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that would change the face of health care as we once knew it. Towards the middle of the Presidents Union Address, he states “By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs and improve care. To protect the doctor-patient relationship and keep good doctors doing good work, we must eliminate wasteful and frivolous medical lawsuits” (Bush, 2004). “President Bush outlined a plan to ensure that most Americans would have electronic health records within the next ten
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South Dakota is finding solutions to meet the needs of its elderly citizens as evidenced by overwhelming support for House Bill 1156, which passed in 2006. State faces both challenges and opportunities in designing a system of long-term care that promotes the health of its residents, preserves independence, guard’s dignity and is fiscally responsible. Some of the issues in front of the State include: • An aging population; • Geographic mismatch between the places where services exist today and
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following services: a) Health services b) Home loans 4. Select a service organization of your choice a) Identify its patterns of demand. Do demand levels following a predictable cycle or change randomly? What are the underlying causes of these variations? b) What is the nature of this service organization’s approach to capacity and demand management? c) What changes would you recommend in relation to its management of capacity and demand? Why? 5. Why do customers
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protection and the affordable care act much of what is known about the healthcare system is changing. This has been one of the most drastic departure from the traditional healthcare systems that we had. Why do we have to change healthcare system? How do we get to a place where healthcare reform and structuring was needed? To answer these questions, we must look back to our history to see how the political system, policies, programs and values have shift our modern health system leading up to the 2010
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Socialism will be the appropriate economic system which will be suitable during the crisis of epic proportions. Main reason for choosing socialism is that it discloses about the relationship between the four things, namely, human fellowship, social system, common ownership and finally the service of every citizen to each other. According to Raul (n.d.): • Human fellowship is something which denies about the various classes and provides its distinctions. • According to the social system, one
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years we have been experiencing a shortage on the supply of physicians, issue that according to the projections will not be changing any time soon. Given this situation we could probably already answer the question and risk to say that it is a good idea economy-wise to become a doctor, seeing that at least for the next 10 years the supply will not be anywhere close to satisfy the demand. There’s many factors that affect this increase in demand such as aging of population, the Baby Boomers that
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